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Any chance the USA tab could be renamed North America?


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Blood-
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:51 am Reply with quote
This never really occurred to me before, but now that the UK and Australia tabs have been brought to my attention, I've started to think about it. After all, the Grand Pooh-bah around here is a Canuck and many of the best-looking, most charming and intellectually astute posters are Canadian as well (modesty prevents me from naming names).

Come on, man, we ain't the 51st state yet!

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I shall stand by the corner of our fellow Commonwealth member. It would require very little effort to grant the request being made.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:53 am Reply with quote
No mention of Mexico? What are you, some kind of racist? Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:24 pm Reply with quote
Couldn't we simplify things by getting rid of the Aussie and UK sites and replacing them with a Commonwealth site where our Canadian brethren would be welcome to join us?

We could insist on proper English spellings on our refined Commonwealth forum and maybe set the site up to automatically play God Save the Queen at 1:00am (GMT) every night, just like BBC Radio 4. Doesn't that sound cosy?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:41 pm Reply with quote
DerekTheRed wrote:
No mention of Mexico? What are you, some kind of racist? Wink


I didn't mention Mexico because a significant portion of its population already resides within the US. Wink

@ Moomintroll - that does indeed sound cosy. And with the latest royal nuptials not far off, well-timed.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:18 pm Reply with quote
Even though I live in the USA, I too would like to see it changed to North America as well. I mean even though some parts of Canada are "America Lite", they still are part of NA so I think it does make a bit more sense to include them in the tab and not just something shoved in a corner.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:35 pm Reply with quote
asimpson2006 wrote:
Even though I live in the USA, I too would like to see it changed to North America as well. I mean even though some parts of Canada are "America Lite", they still are part of NA so I think it does make a bit more sense to include them in the tab and not just something shoved in a corner.

For whatever it may be worth, I concur.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:30 am Reply with quote
Moomintroll wrote:
Couldn't we simplify things by getting rid of the Aussie and UK sites and replacing them with a Commonwealth site where our Canadian brethren would be welcome to join us?
Last I checked, Aussies don't care much about being in the Commonwealth.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:51 am Reply with quote
Aw, you poor leafies. Confused

I say we give them what they want, in exchange for a heaping helping of their non-bacony bacon. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:58 am Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
This never really occurred to me before, but now that the UK and Australia tabs have been brought to my attention, I've started to think about it. After all, the Grand Pooh-bah around here is a Canuck and many of the best-looking, most charming and intellectually astute posters are Canadian as well (modesty prevents me from naming names).

Come on, man, we ain't the 51st state yet!

Signed,

Canada


I debated this myself. However there are two reasons not to change it to North America:

1) Too many letters in "North America,"
2) We aren't covering Mexico and Bermuda.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:01 am Reply with quote
Sanosuke_Inara wrote:
I say we give them what they want, in exchange for a heaping helping of their non-bacony bacon. Very Happy


We don't effin call it "bacon," why the hell do you call it "Canadian Bacon?"
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:07 pm Reply with quote
tempest wrote:
We don't effin call it "bacon," why the hell do you call it "Canadian Bacon?"
Tch, hell if I know. We just do. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:10 pm Reply with quote
tempest wrote:
We don't effin call it "bacon," why the hell do you call it "Canadian Bacon?"


Y'know, on that note I've always found it odd that the Hawaiian pizzas I make at work have Canadian bacon on them. Laughing Just what is the proper term for it anyhow?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:09 pm Reply with quote
tempest wrote:
1) Too many letters in "North America,"
2) We aren't covering Mexico and Bermuda.-t


To be fair, Bermuda is the same as Canada- they get the same "stuff imported from the US" stuff we get, so any USA news applies to them too.

Though a Canada tab would be nice in the future for the occasional Canada-centric news, like con coverage or french dvd's. That said, it's okay for now.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:43 pm Reply with quote
tempest wrote:
I debated this myself. However there are two reasons not to change it to North America:

1) Too many letters in "North America,"
2) We aren't covering Mexico and Bermuda.


Well then what about "US & Canada"?

It's no more characters than Australia and wouldn't include Mexico or Bermuda.

You could also shorten it to USA & CAN.

asimpson2006 wrote:
I mean even though some parts of Canada are "America Lite", they still are part of NA so I think it does make a bit more sense to include them in the tab and not just something shoved in a corner.


Fair enough. Canadian are a lot like Americans...we just tend to be somewhat lighter. Wink
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